The Pediatric Psychiatrist List

The Pediatric Psychiatrist List 500 Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists Throughout Los Angeles County December 2018 Issue James J. De Santis, Ph.D., Editor 138 North Brand Boulevard, Suite 300, Glendale, California 91203-4618 112 West Bennett Avenue, Suite 4, Glendora, California 91741 (818) 551-1714 [email protected] JJDeSantis.com Copyright © 2018, James J. De Santis, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Table of Contents Section/Page Introduction . Front Index by City. 1 Index by Last Name . 14 Informational Links . 24 The Pediatric Psychiatrist List The Pediatric Psychiatrist List is a concise directory of physicians who provide mental health services to children and adolescents in Los Angeles county. Please contact the listed physician for more specific information about professional qualifications, services, appointments, and fees. Physicians may or may not be available for new patients at this time. For easy reference, the list is cross-indexed by city and last name. Permission to Copy Permission is granted to the reader to copy and distribute this list as long as the list editor's contact information is not removed. This list is available via mail or via download from the internet. The Pediatric Psychiatrist List has been viewed over 7,000 times since first posted on the internet in 2006. There is never a cost to professionals or prospective patients for this list. As a courtesy when contacting physicians, please let them know where you learned about their practice. Submissions This directory is a free, community service. Pediatric psychiatrists may list their practice whether currently accepting new patients or not. Submit on professional letterhead your name, degrees, e-mail address, complete office address & phone. Direct any submissions, inquiries, or corrections to and request updates of this list from the list editor. Permission has been obtained to place a phyisicians name on this list. Understanding and Acceptance This list is provided with the understanding that the editor is not engaged in rendering a professional service in the form of a recommendation or an endorsement. The editor does not represent or warrant that any specific doctor is appropriate for any specific individual or specific purpose. Doctors are presumed to be licensed; however, credentials have not been verified. Not everyone who sees children or adolescents has actually had a child psychiatry fellowship and is board eligible or certified as a child psychiatrist. Some physicians in this list may be primarily adult psychiatrists. In some circumstances, adult psychiatrists may see patients as young as 14 years of age. Adult psychiatry residency programs typically require very brief child psychiatry rotations, typically on the order of a few months total time. Please ask your doctor about their qualifications. While the editor makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of information presented in this list, the user is cautioned that this list could include typographical errors and/or technical inaccuracies. Listings are subject to change without notification. Links contained in our internet directory are provided for the convenience of the user; no approval or endorsement is implied, and links are opened at the user’s risk. Use of this directory constitutes an understanding and acceptance of these conditions. The Metropolitan Los A ngeles Pediatric Psychiatrist Resource Directory is not affiliated with any other professional organization or association. History of The Pediatric Psychiatrist List The Pediatric Psychiatrist List began out of a need I recognized in my own practice. I recognize the value of referrals to specialists and will refer my patients for evaluation and treatment by a psychiatrist when the need is apparent. The process of making a referral to a specialist, however, can be a cumbersome task. Therapists as well as patients can find it quite difficult to locate an appropriate doctor. Typically for a clinician to find a psychiatrist who sees children or adolescents, they must place several phone calls or send several e-mails out to colleagues in the community, wait and collect the replies--most of which are suggestions for whom to call next who might have information--then make a second or third round of additional inquiries to the suggested leads before finding those professionals offering the right type of service. This is random, redundant, and time-consuming. I have done a lot of reading on business and marketing, given workshops to therapists in my office periodically on the subject of marketing a practice and have had a trickle of newly licensed clinicians come to me for marketing coaching, so it occurred to me that if I need this information, then others might as well. I had just had a very successful experience developing similar directories for psychological testing and for group therapy, both of which are similarly hard to locate. So in 2006, I began to more formally publish a directory of child psychiatrists throughout Los Angeles county. A directory is necessary because one cannot usually find child psychiatrists in the yellow pages or even through local professional associations or the internet. Keeping a list current, unlike other types of directories, requires frequent updating of the information. Updates are published about annually--when the number of changes is sufficiently large to warrant a new edition. Assembling such a list requires time and effort. I've been asked why I do this; what's "in it" for me. Building a private practice requires a lot of time and effort. Marketing a practice involves creating professional visibility for oneself. Offering a valuable resource to the community is just a method of "enlightened self-interest." Mark Twain said, "Always do right; it will gratify some and astonish the rest." If I didn't spend my marketing time this way, I would put my time into some other form of outreach. Some people go to a lot of "lunch" with their colleagues. Some people volunteer with the Red Cross. This project is a part of what I do. This directory is offered without charge. If a fee were involved, then this fee would automatically create a barrier to the directory being truly comprehensive. Some would pay, others would decline to participate. Since The Pediatric Psychiatrist List has no such barrier, no one has a reason not to list their services. Hence it can be inclusive and therefore totally comprehensive. This inclusiveness and comprehensiveness creates a powerful advantage as a community resource. So I began to seriously build the list, contacted everyone I knew or heard about that is a psychiatrist who sees children and adolescents, and reviewed various other sources. A few sets of broadcast e-mail, letters, phone calls, and post card mailings augmented the search. The response was almost uniformly positive. Every time I hear of a colleague who might be appropriate to include, I investigate. I don't let doctors add to the list through an automated system, because too many tend to ignore instructions, omit important information, or try to get in when they don't offer this specific service. I place a disclaimer in the directory that says I do not check credentials, but I do try to make sure I have a license number listed for everyone. Prelicensed people must advertise under the name and license of their supervisor. I think credentialing is a problematic task, fraught with liability issues, so this is outside the pervue of the list. Los Angeles county has about 5,000 psychiatrists in it, and far fewer child psychiatrists. This is a manageable catchment area. Anything bigger would have to be a venture that would require time and monetary outlay akin to some of the other paid internet directories. My passion is doing clinical work; this directory is just a means to assist that end. I also publish other directories for the local area--psychologists who offer psychological testing and therapists who offer group therapy--and am involved with directories of clinicians specific to my own practice areas of Glendale & Glendora. Each of these is designed to reach other marketing segments and optimal referrers. My intent is to circulate The Pediatric Psychiatrist List to the community as widely as possible for purposes of effective cross-referral. The list is mailed out in small batches periodically to the professional mental health community. I hope this latest edition of The Pediatric Psychiatrist List will be of value to you. James J. De Santis, Ph.D., Editor, The Pediatric Psychiatrist List The Editor James J. De Santis, Ph.D., C.G.P., earned his bachelors degree in psychology from the University of Southern California, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and his masters and doctoral degrees in psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology. Dr. De Santis has been licensed as a psychologist for twenty-nine years. He is a life issues consultant in full-time private practice in Glendale and Glendora and works with adults, youth, and couples offering assessment and treatment services. He is a certified Imago Relationship Therapist and a Certified Group Psychotherapist. Dr. De Santis is the current president of the Glendale Area Mental Health Professionals Association and the East San Gabriel Valley Mental Health Professionals Association. He has written a column, "The Business of Practice,” published in the GAMHPA Newsletter and ESGV Newsletter. In 1998, Dr. De Santis published, “Start an Interdisciplinary Association: A Successful Practice Development Program For Mental Health Professionals,” an instructional manual about marketing. In 2003, he began the Los Angeles Outpatient Group Therapy Directory, better known as “The Group List,” the largest resource of psychotherapy groups in Los Angeles county. In subsequent years he has added other directories, such as the Los Angeles Psychodiagnostic Assessment Directory, the largest resource in Los Angeles county of psychologists offering testing services. Jim has facilitated a workshop series on marketing for mental health professionals for a decade and offers private individual consultation on practice development.

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